The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Cambridge accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cam bridge, visited her Majesty yesterday at the new Palace. The Queen gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of Argyle and Viscount Melbourne. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. Amongst the company were Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Miss Spring Rice, Sir John Hobhouse, and the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained a small party, including her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouces ter, Sir Henry Wheatley, Mr. Hugh Halket, and Col. James, at dinner last evening, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Sophia at Kensington Palace yesterday. Messrs. Colville, Young, end Stewart had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches from the Governors of British Guiana and of Gibraltar were received yesterlly at the Colonial-office. The Commander of the Forces had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS Lord Ramsay, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from his seat in Scotland ; the Hon. 'Mr. Langdale, M. P. at ditto, from Yorkshire ; Mr. Thomas Ilawkes, M. P., at ditto, from his seat, near Dudley ; Sir John Harford Bridges, Bart., at ditto, from Radnorshire ; Captain and Mrs. Scott, at ditto, from Warwickshire ; Lieutenant Colonel Lefmond, at ditto, from Madras ; Dr. and Mrs. Archdale, at ditto, from a tour ; the Hon. Messrs. Yelverton, at ditto from Dublin; Dr. White, at ditto, fi mn Madras ; Mr. Richard Heaton, M.P., at ditto, from his seat in Lancashire; Mr. Blackstone, M. P., at ditto, from his seat in Yorkshire; Captain Barry Fox, at ditto, from Ireland ; Mr. John Arkwriglit, at ditto, from Derby ; Mr. E. 11. Reynard, at ditto, from Yorkshire ; Mr. Childers, M. P., at the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street, fc,an his seat, Cantley Park, near Doncaster ; Mrs. Desborough, at ditto, from Berkshire ; Mr. William and Mrs. Fowler, at ditto, from their scat, Sunning-hill, Berkshire ; Mr. Charles Rooke, at ditto, from a tour; the Earl of Fitzwilliam, in Grosvenor-place, from Went worth House, Yorkshire; the Marquis of Granby, M, P., at the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street, from Belvoir Castle; Lord Charles Manners, M. P., at ditto, from ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Fowler, and family, at ditto, from their seat in Berks ; -- Hook, Esq., at ditto from a tour. DEPARTURES. John Bird, Esq., Mrs. Bird, and suite, from Green Park Hotel, Recadilly, for Congreve House, Birmingham. QUEEN ADELAIDE AND THE POOR. The following is a copy of the letter accompanying the donation of the Queen Dowager for the relief of the poor applicants to the Alendieity Society, alluded to in yesterday's paper : _ _ . " St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Jan. 17. " Sir,—The Queen Dowager having seen in the newspapers an appeal frorn the Committee of the Mendicity Society for further subscriptions, to enable them to meet the heavy de mands occasioned by the unusual severity of the weather, has commanded me to pay the sum of 100/., as her Majesty's con tribution for so laudable a purpose. " I have therefore to inform you, that I have written to Messrs. Coutts and Co. to authorise them to advance that amount to the funds of the Society. I have the honour to be. &c. (Signed) " WM. ASHLEY. " To the S.,cretary of the tdendicity Society." THE GHOST STORY. Mr. Hobler presents his compliments to the Editor of The Sun, and solicits the insertion of this letter in his very valuable and widely vireo. lated Evening Joernal at the earliest opportunity. Mr. H is firmly convinced that this favour wir be granled to him, as it involves a mat ter of great importance at the present crisis, in which the public are deeply interested, and front which meny respectable persons have been excessively annoyed and alarmed by the nocturnal depredations of some vagabonds, who have appeared to them in the form and fashion of hob goblins and ghosts. A committee of gentlemen have spiritedly come forward for the rurpose of raising a fund for securing these unfeeling wretches, alias " ghosts," and visiting them with that severe punish ment which they so richly &serve. The Lord Mayor has kindly con sented to receive subscriptions from ladies or gentlemen whose peace and comfort have been destroyed by these scamps, and his Lordship has already in his possession subs: riptions amounting to 331. towards the expenses of their prosecution. A liberal donation of five guineas has been forwarded to his Lordship from Plutarch Dickinson, Esq., of Plumer Villa, Dulwich, whose daughter was nearly deprived of her sense,, and is now lying in a Very dangerous state, by the sudden ap pearance of one of these ruffians enveloped in a white sheet and blue fire, on her return home I,st week from a party of friends. A donation of Cl. has also been received from Mr. Benjamin 111.:rsh, or Ham mersmith, whose son Timothy, a youth of nine years of age, was terribly frightened at the sight of a fellow dressed as a bear. The committee have been informed that some of the reseals are connected with high families, and that bets to the amount of 3,000/. are at stake upon the euccers or failure or their abominable proceedings. The committee can scarcely give credence to the following report which has reached their ears, that the object of the villains is to destroy the lives of not less than thirty human beings ! viz. eight old bachelors, ten old maids, anti six lady's maids, and as many servant girls as they can, by depriving them of their reason, and otherwise accelerating their deaths. The committee have already circulated placards about the suburbs of London offering a reward of 101 for the apprehension of any of these heartless scoundrels, and proceedings will be instituted against them im mediately they are captured. Thus, Mr. Editor, the public are greatly indebted to these gentlemen for their praiseworthy exertions in allaying the feats of the weak, timid, and superstitious, by the prosecution of this sang of ghosts and hobgoblins, who have excited so much terror and alarm in the vicinity of London. - Mansion-house, Jan. 17, 1838. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to take under her immediate patronage the classical concerts of tilessrs. Mori and _ . . _ The Earl of Durham's Viceroyalty of Canada will comprise Lower and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton. and Prince Edward Island. Major- General Sir Colin Campbell will command the Queen's forces in Nova Scotia, and Major-General Sir John Harvey, in New Brunswick, and Sir John Colborne will command in Canada. The Earl of Gosford and Sir Francis Bond Head return home forthwith from the colony. The Earl and Countess of Minto will entertain a large party at dinner, this evening at the Admiralty. Lord INlelgund has arrived in town from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have re turned to Stafford House, front a visit to Lady Dover, her Grace's sister, at Roehampton, where a family circle has been assembled during the holidays. The following statement is from the thermometer at the doorway of Messrs. Swain and Co., Fleet-street. It is for the week just ending, and for the corresponding week of last year— each day at noon..:= 1837. 1838. Jan. 15 16 17 18 .. ...... 42 18 19 20 And the following is the statement, as registered by the same thermometer, this morning— At Half-past Eight o'Clock Nine &Clock Half-past Nine Ten Half-past Ten Eleven Half-past Eleven Twelve IMPORTANT NEW BooKs.—\Ve are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street ' has just published the following interesting and important New orks Diary of the Times of George IV., with nu merous letters of Queen Caroline, and other Royal or Dis tinguished Persons, 2 vols., Bvo. 2. The Duchess of Marl oorongh's Private Correspondence, illustrative of the Court and Tim es of Qu een A nne , now first published, with her Sketches and Opinions of her Contemporaries, 2 vols., Bvo., with Portraits. 3. The Autobiography of Joseph Holt, Ge neral of the Irish Rebels in 1798. edited, from his Ori g inal MS., in the possession of Sir W. 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As Bull's New System, with a list an nexed of all the valuable yew publications, is published for general distribution, full pariieulars can be obtained, or sent by post as a single letter, on 'application to Mr. Bull; th e Librarian, 19, Holies-street, four doors from Cavendish- Square. ROYSTON GOWER, OR TIDE DAYS OF KING JOHN..—It was feared that when we lost the great Wizard of the North, we at the same time lost (as regarded the future at least) that splendid monument cf his genius, the '° Historical Romance ;" for as he hail no rival when living, it has not even appeared that lie left his mantle behind him. We have now, 1. owever, every r, ason to hope that such is net the case, and th.rt a revival of this noble class of works is at hand, end from a cow et. whence such a treasure could be little expected. In fact, the extraordinary writer who has already excited so much attention and interest in the literary world, by his " Day in the Woods," &c., has made a held attempt to seize on the vacant throne of the genius o f ilis'crical Romance, and has Produced, under the title of " I?eyston Gower," a work which we are confidently assured gives the strongest promise of Powers adequate to the great undertaking. ON CANADA. LETTER 111. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Su Bryanstone-square, Jan. 19. SIR—In your journal of the 9th inst., you call my atten tion to Lord John Russell's first resolution, which states that the House of Assembly of Lower Canada had not fulfilled the promises made to his Majesty's Nlinisters, when, in 1831, they conceded certain revenues before that thee levied and applied by the Crown, relying on the good feeling of that As sembly to make proper provision for the Civil List of the country; and that, therefore, as the House of Assembly had not ful filled that compact, the Imperial Parliament was war ranted in passing the Bth resolution of last Session to take the money from the Canada Treasury, with ou t t h e sanct i on of the House of Assembly to pay that Civil Establishment. lam willing to admit that Lord Goderich made that concession, as I think liberally, in the hopes that the As sembly of Lower Canada would have granted a permanent Civil List as the House of Assembly of Upper Canada did ; but there certainly was not any compact on the part of Lower Canada to do so, that could warrant such a resolution of the constitutional rights of that Assembly. You are quite correct that that Ist resolution alleges—" That since tire 31st of October. 1832, no provision had been made by the Legislature of the province of Lower Canada fur defraying the charges of the administration of justice, and for the support, of the Civil Government within the said irrovince. This statement has been made by the Ministers of the Crown and repeated by all their supporters, and that by the refusal of the Assembly to vote supplies the judges of the land, the Governor, the sheriffs, and other public officers requisite to carry on the Government of the province had been left desti tute, and the courts of justice were in danger of being shut up. But such statements are altogether erroneous, as regards the House of Assembly, and the public should be disabused of such unfair statements, as that body has voted supplies regularly every ye ar , an d s en t a Bill o f su pply t o t h e Legislative Coun cil, which has rejected it as regularly, because rejections were made of some, and certain conditions were imposed in other items by the House of Assembly. If you read M'Gregor's excellent History of Lower Canada, you will see that for twenty years past there has been a yearly dispute between the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council about supplies. The House of Assembly called for accounts, required explanations, objected to items altogether, and rejected others, which the Legislative Council and the Governors refused to agree to, and this sort of contest has been continued every year since 1832. It is highly unjust, therefore, to the representatives of the peo ple in Canada to charge them before the Imperial Parliament with refusing the supplies, and thereby of putting an end to the administration of justice; and still more unjust to assign these acts as the reason why Par liament should now interfere with the constitutional rights of the Assembly, when the blame has rested with the Legislative Council alone ; and when the House of Assembly has from time to time been loud in their complaints to the Crown against such conduct. It is not true that the Governor is des titute of supplies, for the House of Assembly have granted 10,000/. yearly as a permanent grant, which they have not in terfered with, and cannot alter ; and there is also an amount of nearly 20,000/., which is received by the Governor from different sources of revenue—making, as Lord Glenelg's letter shows, a sum of about 30,0001. a year at the disposal of the Governor of Lower Canada. It would be tedious to prove my state ment, as regards the supplies, by giving you the details of the proceedings of the House of Assembly in every year since 1833 ; but I will state one instance—the proceedings of the . last vote of supply in 1836—that equal justice may be done to the House of Assembly, and that the public may be undeceived ae to the charge which has been, so prominently and so un justly, made against the House of Assembly, for not granting supplies to pay the Civil Government and the Judges. The Chronicle has stated (30th December)—and the Chronicle is considered good autherity—" 2'hat the House of Assembly of Lower Canada have refused to appropriate the supplies for' several years, and left all the functionaries in a state of des titation"—wilich they know, or ought to know, is not correct. I repeat, that the House of Assembly have voted the supplies, but the Legislative Council have refused them On the 26th February, 1836, the House of Assembly. " Re solved to address his Majesty and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to solicit from them the reforms, which have been asked for by this House, and the people (of Canade), and the removal of grievances and abuses; and determined to grant his Majesty the supplies requisite for the interval between the 15th of January and lath Jaly next—regard being had to the cir cemstauces attending each item asked for, and to the resources of the country." The address to the King, and the petitions to the Lords and Commons, praying for redress of grievances, were agreed to by 55 to 7. I submit that in this proceeding they followed the precedent of the best times of the English Parliament, and demanded a redress of grievances, at the time they were voting supplies. The estimate for the expense of the Civil Government in 1833, was 54,6071., and the AssernLly having then made some reduc tions for pluralities and improper charges, voted 47,2541., al.d passed a Bill of Supply for that amount; but the Legislative Council rejected it, because of the reductions and conditions that Lad been made. It was the duty of the House of Assembly to put an end to all pluralities and unnecessary expence; and they ought to have received the thanks of the Colonial Minister, for their attention to economy in the finances of the Pros ince, and the Legislative Council ought to have been admonished for re jecting that Bill. In February, 1836, the House of Assembly took the Esti mate of Supply of 1833—viz., 54,6071.—and having made some deductions from salaries and items that were too high, and annexed conditions to others, they passed the Bill, having reduced somewhere about 6,000/. Lord Gosford's Reports (see Par. Paper, No. 51, 1837) to Lord Glenelg on the 12th of Mareb, 1836, states that the House of Assembly, on the 3d of March had passed a Bill of Supply fur six months, and sent it up to the Legislative Council on the sth of March, and that, after the first and second reading it wat lost on the 9th of March in a Committee of that body. The House of Assembly were most desirous of settling every difference, in the hopes that Lord Gosford intended to grant the demands of the Assembly, and they were considering the supplies and arrears when, by the publication in Upper Ca nada of the whole of his Lordship's instructions, Ly Sir Francis Head, the House of Assembly of Lower Canada became alarmed, and saw that his Lordship had no power 'to grant the chief redress they sought for, viz., en alteration in the Legis lative Council so as to meet the wishes of the people. The House of Assembly therefore renewed their demands for re dress of grievance before they would grant supplies for more than six months. Lord Gosford says, " I can only repeat my belief that, but for that publication (by Sir F. Head) the arrears and full supplies would have been granted." It is evident from a perusal of the instructions, that Lord Glenelg, whilst he strongly inculcates conciliation in his in structions to Lord Gosford, neither gave him the power, nor intended lie should make the concessions required by the Canadians in the Legislative Council. The fair promises of Lord Gosford, though very vague and indistinct, had so far prevailed in the House of Assembly, that when the publication of th_ instructions appeared, they were on the point of grant ing the arrears of former years and the supplies for the whole year 1836, almost without conditions, relying on the promises held out in that portion of the instructions which his Lordship had made public. The transaction does not appear very creditable either to Lord Glenelg or Lord Gosford, if the attempt made was to get the supplies on false pretences, and to induce the Assembly to believe that his Lordship wanted only time to make the pro mised concession of full redress of their just complaint of the Legislative Council. His Lordship is therefore correct in writing to Lord Glenelg :—" I can only repeat my belief, that but for that publication (viz., the part of my instructions which I had kept secret) the arrears and full supplies would have been granted." Lord Gosford further writes :—" The Assembly, in grant ing the supplies, adopted another plan for effecting the aboli tion of pluralities." Where any officer held two situations the salary of one only was voted, and the other entirely omitted. Among the principal omissions not founded on the objection to pluralities are the Postage Account of the Civil Secretary's office, the salaries of the Executive Councillors and of their Assistant Clerk, of Mr. Justice Gale and one of the Provincial Aides-de-Camp." His Lordship rdds:—" I under stand, chiefly in consequence of those omissions, that the Le gislative Council declined to proceed with the Bill." The following are some of the reductions which the House of Assembly made in the estimates, and tie conditions assigned opposite each officer's name, for nof paying the double or treble salary which had been given to persons holding incompatible offices, and you will be able to judge whether the objections were reasonable or not 1. The Clerk and Registrar of the Executive Council was also . a member of the Legislative Council—the House of As sembly voted his salary of 250/. for six months as Registrar, and to be paid provided he gave up as s member of the " Legislative Council," which two offices were deemed in compatible. 2. . The Clerk of the Legislative Council hell also the situa tion of a Member of the Executive Council, and the [louse of Assembly voted 2251., the half-year's salary, as Clerk, and to be paid, provided he " relinquished the situation as member of the Executive C.,micil." 3. The Cie; k of the Crown in Chancery had his salary voted, and to be paid, provided he was neither " Mem -1),- of the Legislature, nor of the Executive Councils." 4. The salaries of the Chief Justice of the Province, and of the Chief Justice of Montreal, were voted in full, without any conditions. 5. The salaries of Six Puisne Judges were voted, and to be pa id, " provid e d suc h Judges shall neither hold, nor enjoy any other profit whatever under the Crown." The salary of Judge Gale was alone refused, for good reasons assigned. 6. The Judge of the Court cf Vice-Admi r alty had a salary. voted, and to be paid, " provided that he do not exact or take any f ee s, or hold any other office of profit under the Crown." 7, The salaries of the Sheriffs of the District of Quebec, cf Montreal, and of the Three Rivers, were voted, and to be pa id, " provided they were neither a Legislative nor Execu tive Councillor." 8. The salary of the Commis.ioner fur msnarring t , was voted ; and to he paid " provided h e b e ne i t h er a Lcgisla nOr Executive Councillor." estates 9. The salary of the Master of the Grammer School at Quebec was voted; and to be paid, " provided he do teach gratuitously at least twenty children belonging to destitute parents." These are a few of the conditions annexed to the payment of those public funct i ona r ies by the Commons of Lower Ca nada ; and. I ask you , whether the British House of Commons or her Majesty's Min i sters were warranted, in April li 8-, to resolve, that the House of Assembly of Lower Catia , 'a had nut granted supplies sin-:e 1832, when it was tile Leyislativc THE SUN, LON DON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1838 Council which had rejected the Bill ; and solely because tile House of Assembly bad imposed these conditions on the pay ment of those and some other officers ? It is almost incredible that the Colonial Minister should have supported the Legislative Council in their refusal of supplies in the way he did for so many years, thereby encouraging the discord, and increasing the irrtation which unhappily existed between the House of AsA!mbly and Legislative Council; and it is equally strange ant the Co lonial Ministers consecutively during all this time, should have declared in the House of Commons, and expressed in their dispatches, their great anxiety to conciliate the House of Assembly. It appears that Lord Glenelg grew wiser after the ill starred resolutions of April were passed ; for, on the 14th of July last, he writes to Earl Gosford, " Should the House of Assembly be disposed to vote the supplis, excluding Only the debatable items, your Lordseip will not, on that account, re fuse the terms 'which they may offer." Lord Gosford seems also to have acted, in payi:lg the salaries from the money voted by the House of Common:, on the very principle the House of Assembly had acted upon since 1833 ; and, writes in his dispatch of the 23th of October, 1837, to Lord Glenelg---" I have to remark that in those instances where the House of As sembly had reduced, in their votes of 183:3 and 1836, the salaries of certain officers, such, for example, as the icians to the gaols, the provincial Aide-de-Camp, the Masters of the Royal Grammar Schools at Quebec and Montreal, I have paid the arrears only at the reduced rate, from Ist April, 1836." I think it will be apparent that if the Governor of Lower Canada in 1833, and the Colonial Minister of that day, had acted in respect to the supply voted by the House of Assembly as Lords Glenelg and Gosford, at the eleventh hour, were dis posed to do in 1837, tit., present lamentable state of aiflirs in that province might have been prevented. A careful atten tion to the proceedings respecting supplies in Lower Canada, will, I think, prove that the House of Assembly has all along done their duty ; and that the obstinacy of the Legis lative Council, and the conduct of the Colonial Ministers, have brought on the present discontent and excit emen t. I . . say, theredore, that it is their duty to make atonement for their past errors by frankly conceding those just demmds of the Canadians, which will ensure peace and contentment in the province. I believe than no man will deny to the Huse of Commons the power of controlling and of stopping the supplies, if the Ministers of the Crown shall lose its confidence ; and on the same principle the power of the House of Assembly in Canada ought to be supported. I admit that it is a power to be exercised only in extreme cases, when other Constitutional means have failed to procure redress ; but each Assembly must be the best judges in every such case. Whatever may have Leen Lord , 31enelg's opinion on that subject before 1836, he expressly admits in his despatch of the 7th of June to Earl Gosford, the power in the following words —" His Majesty does not deny that this (the stopping (-,f sup plies) is a power which the law has intrusted to the represen tatives of the people." I hope I hive proved to your satisfaction that it was the Legislative Council and not the House of Assembly which re fused the supplies ; and that the representatives of the have the rower to do so if they think fit ; and after the facts I have related, th e H ouse o f C ommons ought, in toy op i n ion, to abolish the Legislative Council, instead of depriving the House of Assembly o f t h e i r C onst i tut i ona l r i ghts. I remain, your o b e di en t Servant, JOSEPH HUM-E. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--By giving this circular a place in your paper you will oblige the Committee. JOHN NENVTON. TO THE TRADE SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND THE WORKING CLASSES GENERALLY. At a Nleting of the Delegates and Members of the Trade Societies, forming the London Committee acting on tehalf of the Glasgow Cotton-spinners, which Meeting was also numerously attended by Members of Societies not on the Committee, the following statement was unanimously adopted, and ordered for circulation : Fellow Workmen,—lt is with the deepest regret that we have to announce to you the conviction and sentence. to seine .0 years' transportation of the five Glasgow cotton. spinners, on the three minor charges contained in the indictment, viz., conspiring to raise wages, and two assaults on "nob" spinners, during the late protracted strike ; the Judge, in stnammg up, having admitted that none of the evidence given proved any of the capital charges. While we thus express our regret at the conviction, let it not be supposed that we countenance in the slightest degree any of those atrocious acts of assassination end violence as serted by the witnesses for tha prosecution to have been com mitted by the Cotton Spinners' Association in Glasgow; on the contrary, we look on such proceedings with the greatest indignation and abhorrence, and repudiate them in the name of our respective societies; hut it is becanze we believe, after a careful perusal of the evidence, as reported in the London papers, the convicted cotton spinners to be guiltless of these atrocities--because we believe the Associa- tion, of which they were members, had no other oi)j;e; in view but the protection of their labour, by proper and justifi able means, and did not sanction the committal of outrage, that we afford them our sympathy and support, and call upon you to do the same. Yes, fellow-workmen, notwithstanding the mass of evidence which the Crown—after six mcnths' exertion, and three suc cessive postponements, in order, as they said, to enable them more fully to establish the guilt of the prisoners—Lave taped together, they have failed to prove any of the more serious charges against the prisoners, which: fact alone convinces us that the Cotton Spinners' Association is based upon prin ciples similar to our own societies, viz., the 'enabling the members to procure an adequate reward for their labour by just means. That violence has been offered to individuals__ that a man of notoriously bad character of the name of Smith was assassinated, is too true—that such acts may have been committed :by cotton spinners is possible, but that they wet e sanctioned or in any way authorised either by the Cotton Spinners' Association, or by its Committee; or that they were perpetrated in the expectatio n of reward from the society, we utterly disbelieve, On the autho rity of the Trades of Glasgow, who fully investigated the cir cumstances. We do not believe that the committee of any :rad e society ever deliberately sanctioned assassination, or that ,he members of any trade society ever contributed to a fund raised for that purpose. We look on the Cotton Spinners' Committee as victims to the violence of men with whom they or their society had no feeling in common. We are in daily expectation of a communication from the Glasgow committee, which, on its arrival, shall be laid before you. In the meantime we earnestly hope that our fellow workmen will not be influenced by the base conduct of the majority of the London press, in publishing, at full iength, the evidence for the prosecution ; and almost entirely suppress ing. that for the defence. This fact would seem to confirm the suspicions of the attempt :about to be made to crush all trade societies, by fastening acts of atrocity upon them__ by the power of law and capital—and by the basene.ss of those of our own class who degrade themselves and become the per jured instruments in the oppression of their fellow-man ! We are, fellow-workmen, the members of the London (ilasgow Committee : J. Norman, chairmaker, W. Isaacs, typefounder, J. Barrett, carpenter, J. Barnes ; bricklayer, W. Cookes, silk-hatter, J. Jennings, carpenter, Adlington, plasterer, J. Prior, carpenter, T. BABRATT, corkcutter, Chan: J. NEWTON, carpenter, Hon. See. 8311 Inn, 011 Bailey, Jan. 17. The Committce request attention to the following : That the verdict of thc jury, fifteen h► number, was returned by a majority of one only ! Eight voting for " guilty"—seven against. IL Hartwell; compositor, J. Purcell, bricklayer, Wm. Tuck, cabinetinakor, J. Bush, carpenter, H. Mitchell, turner, Bradbeer, carpenter, Dyer, carpenter. — That the prisoners received good characters fcr industry, steadiness, and sobriety from the managers of one or two of the mills who gave evidence for the prosecuTion. That the Glasgow Committee intend publishing forthwith a full report of this extraordinary trial. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—My attention has been drawn to an article in a recent number of your paper, in which it is positively stated, upon the authority of Mr. D. Hill and Mr. C. Pearson, that the Stand ing Order of the House of Commons, requiring a deposit of ten per cent. of the amount of the subscription list of Railway Companies previous to the Report on the Petition, dces not extend to Irish undertakings of this kind. It is not without diffidence that I presume to give an opinion in a case in which a barrister and solicitor of acknowledged ability and consider able experience have already declared themselves; neverthe less, as the question is important, I venture to observe t I feel it would be a hazardous cou rse f or th e p rom oters o: in Irish Railway to resolve to apply f or a Bill d ur i ng the present Session, without complying with th e St an di ng O r der under discussion. That Order, be it obs erve d, se t s ou t by em bracing ALL deeds of contract : it is one of a seri es. applying to Al Railway and oth er P r i va t e Bill s , an d w h enever ae I r i s h Bill in that series i s exce p te d f rom t h e i r genera l opera ti o n, the exception is partic u l ar ly s p ec ifi e d— as i n the instant 4if notices_ proved by affid av it. N ow no except i on i s ma d e inlr avou r of Irish Railway Bills as to the point of deposits, and I believe, moreover, that no exception was intended. If I sea right as to this last point, there is an end of the dispute, for those who framed the Standing Orders are this Session f:;c pointed judges to decide whether they have been coalidieu with or not. The real state oftthe case I look upon as this When the Standing Order was framed, the Scotch Metn')erst who are i%markable for never overlooking a single poi,:t that can accommodate or serve Scotland or the Scottish, tuck care to provide that it should not be necessary for their constitwalts send up their money to lie in the Bank of England, but that it should suffice to place it in their National Banking Establish ments, supposing the parties not to choose to invest i in the the Funds, Exchequer Bills, &c. The Irish Members were not so attentive—the Bank of Ireland was not int:lA.lmA as a deposit bank for the purpose in question, p.nd I do not hesi tate to say that the promoters of Irish Railways Lrannot, under the Standing Order, bring in their Bill without a de posit of the ten per cost., the more particurrly as the Irish funds are open to theca und:r the Standirg Order, though an Irish Bank is not. —I am, Sir, AN IRISH PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. Jan. IS, 1838. Lord Suffield's party at Gunton Hall consisted of • Lord and Lady Mahon, Hon. Alfred Wcdehouse. and Micke!waitc. His Lordship will olos2 the F cason with a grand concert and bull at the to tak , ., place in three wockl. PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA MENT. MEMBERS ELIGIBLE T FOR THE COUt A 'Court, Captain—Tarnworth Aglionby, Major F.—Cumberland Ainsworth, P.—ilolton Anson, Colonel—Staffordshire A rchdall, Mervyn—Fermanagh Baker, Edward—Wilton Baring, V. B.—North Staffordshire Be, keley, Hon. G.—Gloucestershire B e thel!, R.—fast Yorkshire Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Blal,emore, Richard—Wells Blewitt, .Reginald—Monmouth Bain, W.—Bolton Brabazon, L ad—Dublin Co. Bnlilley, Henry—East Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgwater Brocklenurst, J.— !•lacclestield 13rotherton, J.—Salford Buller, E.—North Staffordshire Cavendish, Hen. G. 11.—N. Derby Cayley, E. 5.—N. Yorkshire Clietwyrid, 111i,jor W.—Stafford Codrington, C. W.—Gloucestershire Cole, Viscount—Fermanagh Corte, Sir C.—Clueen's County Copeland, W. T..—Stoke.upon-Trent Courtenny, P.—Bridgewater Cresswell, Cresswell—Liverpool Crewe, Sir George—Derbyshire Davenport, John—Stoke-upon-Trent Duckworth, Samuel—Leicester Duffield, T.—AbingiEni Mgriale, W. S.—Warwickshire Duticombe, Hon. W.—Yorkshire Dunlop, John—Ayrshire Dundas, C. W. D.—Flint Eastli.ope, J.—Leicestf r Egerton,, Lord Francis--Lanca,hire Egerton, W. 'Batton—Cheshire Egerton, Sir P.— Cheshire Ellice, Bight Hon. E.—Coventry Et tral I, Ralph—Andover Evans, W —Derby Evans, G.—Dublin County Fatidlatn, E. B. —N. Leicestershire F'arrand, Robert— Staffl!rd Fenton, John—Rochdale Ferguson, Sir R. C.—Nottingham Ferguson, 11.—Eirkahly Belden, John—Oldham Finch, F.—Walsall Fitzpatrick, J, W —Queen's Co. I . lTetwcod, P. H.-1 re& on Goulburn, Right Hen. H.—Cam bridge University Grinisclitch, T.—Macclesfield Grosvenor, Lord R.—Chester Hale, B. R.—Gloucestershire Ilalford, Henry—Lel..:estershire liallyburton, Lord D. G.—Forfar shire O SIT ON COMMITTEES qTY OF DERBY. Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks ELndinge, Right Hon. Sir H.—Laun ceston Hayter, W. G.—Wells Hindley, Charles—Ashton Elobhouse, Right Hon. Sir J. Cans Nottingham Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamshire Howard, F. J —Youghall • .toward, P. H.--Carlisle Hurt, F.—South Derbyshire Ingestrie, Lord—Staffordshire Irton, Samuel—Cumberland James, William.,-Cumberland Johnstone, J. J. P —Pernfries-shire Johnson, W. A.—Oldham Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Liscelles, Don. W. S.—Wakefield Law, Hon C. E.—Cambridge Univ. M'i.eod, R.—lnverness Mahony, Pierce—Kinsale Manners, Lord C. S.—Leicestershire Marshall, W.—Carlisle Maxwell, nry—Cavan Mi!rres, It. M.—Pontefract Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwickshire Moreton, lion. A.—Gloucestershire Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire Norrcys, Lord—Oxfordshire Ord, W.—Newcastle.upon-Ty ne Owen, Sir J.—Pembrokeshire Parke, Chas. Wm.— Leicestershire Parker, T. A. IV.—Oxfordshire Parke'', R. T.—Preston Parrott, Jasper—Totness P...tten, J. Wilson—Lancashire Peel, [tight ilon.z.ir R.—Tan-moan Pemberton Thomas— Ripon Pollen, Sir ' J.—Andover Ponsonby. J. G Power, John—Waterford Rolleston, Col.—South Nottingham Sandon, Lord—Liverpool Seymour, Lord—Totness Shirley, E. —Warwickshire Somers, J. P.—Sligo Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stanley, IV. Massey—Pontefract Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Stanley, E. J.—Cheshire Stormont, Viscount--Perthshire Strickland, Sir G —West Yorkshire Strutt, Edward—Derby Sugcleo, Sir E.—Ripon Walker, C. A.—Wexford Wilbraham, Hon. B —Lancashire Wilbraham, George—Cheshire Wilmot, Sir .1. E.—Warwickshire Wrightson, W. B.— Notthallerton Young, John—Cavan COUNTY Arland, Sir T. D.—N. Devonshire Arland, T. D.—Vest Somerset Andover, Vise.— Nlalinesbury Anson, Sir G.—Lichfield Ashley, Lord—Dorsetshire Attwood, 'Enos.—Eirmingharn Millie, 11. D.—Honiton Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Barr , G. S.—Cork Co. Bateson, Sir IL—Londonderry Benett, J.—South Wiltshire '..lewes, Thomas—Plymouth Blakeinore, R.—Wells Bowes, John—South Durham Bradshaw, James—Canterbury Bramston, T. W.—Essex South Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Bruszes, NN. IL L. --Bath F filler, Charles—Liskeard huger, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Burdett, Sir F.—North Wiltshire Caleraft, John Hales--Wareinan Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple Codrington, Sir E.--Devonport C , Alier, J.—Plymouth Colquhoun, Sir J.—Dunhartonshire Conyligharn, Lord A.—Canterbury I)ivett, Edward—Exeter Ditlin, A. It.—Suthainpton Dauro, Marquis—Norwich Duncan, Viscount—Southampton East,:James Buller—Winchester anington, Viscount—N. Devon Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Fe UM), John—Rochdale Fitzsiinon, Nicholas—King's Co. F llett, Sir W.—Exeter Grant, Co!onel P. &c. Grattan, Henry—Meath G:ev, Sir G.—bevonpert Benjamin—Mar y Ichone Halse, J.—St. Ives Harland, W. C.—Durham Ilastie, Archibald—Paisley liayter, W. G.—Wells Ihathroat, J.—Tiverton flerbrrt, Hon. S.—South Wilts Hollond, Robert—Hastings Hodgson, Frederick —l3arnstaple !lope, G. W.—Wes mouth flume, Jose , &—Kilkenny Jervls, S. - Bridport Jones, T.—L , mionderry Co. Ku k, F'etcr—Carrickf,rgus Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry— Taunton Lambton, IL—North Durham Langton, Wm. Gore —Somersetshirc OF DEVON. Lascelles, lion. W. S.—Wakefield Lemon, Sir Charles—West Cornwal Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Liddell, Hon. 1 - I.—North Durham Long, W.—North Wiltshire Lurhington, Charles—Ashburton Melgiind, Viscount —Hythe Mildmay, P. St. John —Winchester Miles, Win.—East Somersetshire Morris, D.—Carmarthen O'Connell, Morgan—Meath O'Connell, John—Athlone Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Pa6et, Lord Alfred—Lichfield Palmer, George—Essex Palmerston. Viscount—Tiverton Parker, Montsgu—Devon Parrot, Jasper—Totness Peaso, Joseph—South Durham Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall I ) raley, W.—Lyme Regis i'lanta, Joseph—Hastings Powerscourt, Viscount—Bath Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute Roche, E. B.—Cork Co. Rolfe, R. M.—Penryn Round, Charles Grey—Essex Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Lord—TaVistock Sanford, E. A.—West Somersetshire Scarlett, Hon. Robert—Norwich Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Seymour, Lord—Totness Sheppard, 'Thomas—Frome Sinclair, Sir G.—Caithness-shire Smith, J. A.—Chichester Stewart, James—Honiton ;trangways, Hon. John—Dorset Strutt, Edward —Derby Talbot, J. H.—New Ross Tollemache, Hon. F. G.—Grantham Turn,r, E.—Truro Trevor, lion. Arthur—Durham Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Villiers Viscount—Weymouth Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Vivian, Major Charles—Burlmin Vivian, Sir R. 11.—East Cornwall Wallace,'Rebert—Greenock Warburton, H.—Blidport Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Westenra, I-lon. J. C.—E.ing's Co. Whalley, Sir S.—Marylebene 'Wood. Charles—Halifax Wyndham, Wadham—Salisbury Wynn, Right Hon C. 'W.—Mont gomeryshire Wrightson, W. B.—Northalleiton COUNTY 0 Arland, Sir T. D.—Devonshire Arland, 'l'. D.—So—crsetshire A'Co':rt, Captain E. 11,—Tainworth , Adam, Bear-Adm. Sir C.—Clack-1 mannan Alexander, Viscount—Tyrone Andover, Viscount— 7.lalmsbury Anson, Lieut. Col,—Staffordshire Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsltiro Baines, Edward—Leeds 13ainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Baring, W. 11.—Staifordshire Bellew, R. M. —Louth Benett, John—Wiltshire Bowes, 'l' —Plymouth • Blake, W. J.--Newport Illakemore, Ili. hard—AVells Bodkimi, J. James—Galway Co. Broadwood, Henry—Bridgewater Brodie, NV IL —Salisbury Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Buller, Charles—Liskeard Buller, Edward—Statnrcishi re Buller, Sir si. 13. Y.—Dev,rishire Burdett, Sir F.—Wiltshire Butler. Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Calera!?, J. H —Wareham Chester, Henry—Louth Co. Clive, ii. H. South Shr-pshire Collier, John—Plymouth Compton, H. Combe—Hampshire Cooper, lion. A.—Dorchester • , NV —Stoke-upon-Trent C our t e nay, P.—Bridgwater Curr i e , Raikes—Northampton CDnoaarsrrihiy,,,,, Hon._of7vsyte, L.—Tyrone rooton p b C h i o r . e ood, —Harwichndovr Davenport, John—Stoke-on-Trent Divest, Edward—Exeter altin, A. R.—Southampton Duncan, Viscount—Southampton ' on. it. C.—Kirk Ebrington , Viscount—Devonshire all ght Fielden, John—Oldham Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Edm. Fl e ming, John—Hampshire Follat, Sir W W.—Exeter Forbes, William —Stirlingshire ' lio Gibson, Thomas—lpswich F EE' i cat d u el b i s ' ' L r s o C i I ti l P t i 'AC Tl o i r t An j Goddard, Ambrose —Cricklade Gore, Ormsby—Salop Hawkins, J. IL — Newport, 1. Wight ' flayter, W. E.—Wells Heatlicote, Sir NV.—S Hampshire Herbert, Hon. S.—wilts Berries, Right 113 n. J. C.—Harwich IF DORSET. Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire tiolines, Hon W.—lsle of Wight Inge.tre, Viscount—Staffordshire .I.lermyn. Earl —Bury, Sufi - 41k Jervis, S.—Uridport Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Labouchere, Henry—Taunton Langton, Col Gore—Somerset Lefevre, C. Shaw—North Hants Lemon, Sir C.—Cornwall Leveson, Lord— Morpeth Lone, Walter—Wits Mackinnon, W. A.—Lymington M‘Namara, Maj. W. N.—Clare Co. M‘Taggart, John—Wigton Marsland, "fhomas—Stockport Marsland. Henry--Stockport Martin, 'l'. B.—Galway to. Monypenny, T. G.—Rye Molesworth, Sir William—Leeds Miles, William—Somi:rsetshire Neeld, John—Cricklade O'Bilen, Cornelius—Clare Owen, H. o.—Pembroke Parker. M. E. N.—Devon I'eel, Sir R.—Tamworth Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Pendarves, E. W. W.—Cornwall Philips, G. IL—Poole Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Pollen, Sir J.—Andover Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon Ponsonby, C. F. A. C.—Poole P p l g k e l e r , G j A e . Alex — a e n S — d h C a e r ft a —:S b b e r u i i k ( r i y a i r e k shire Rice, Right Hon. T. S.—Cambridge Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Shelhorne, Earl of—Calve Sheppard, T.—Frome Smith, Hon. IL—Wycombe Smith, R. Vernon—Northampton Spry, Sir S. T.—Bochnin Stanley, W. U—Anglesca Steuart, Robert —Haddington Stewart, John—Lymington Strangways, J. G. F.—Corset Sturt, Henry Charles—D , Tirsetsbire Tufmll, Henry—lpswich Turner, Edmund—Truro Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co. Villiers, Viscount—Weymouth Vivian, Sir It. H.—Cornwall Vivian, C C.—Bodmin J. E.—Truro Warburton, lienry-13ridport Williams, Itchert--Dorchester Wyndham, Wad ham —Sal isb dry Yates, J. Ashton—Carlow T HE W EATHER.—The weather in this neighbour hood has undergone a change from the mildness of spring to all the r igours of wi n t er. The change took place on Saturday night; and since that period snow has continued to fail at in tervals, accompanied at night with rather severe frosts. The face of the country is now covered to the depth of a few incises : but hitherto the mails and coaches have nearly kept their proper time. The effect on the feathered tribe is con spicuous. The notes which were heard last week from the thrus h have been followed by the cry of the fieldfare and the redwing' which h ave b ecome more tame, and more easily ap proached. At the time we are writing (Thursday afternoon), there is presented every i ndication of the continuance of the —Doncaster storm- D •Gazette. Addison's new work " Damascus and Palmyra," may he expected in a few days. The narrative embraces descriptions of the waste of Syria; Greece, under Bavarian m isrule the curiositi es o f the city of the Sultan ; the route t h enc e t h r ough the a nc i ent - Bi thynia and Phrygia to Sardis, and to 1 11 agnesia; the G ree k I s l ands, Rhodes, Cyprus ; in Syria, Aleunt Lebanon and its inhabitants ; the camp of Ibra him Paella ; the court a nd cast l e o f t h e E m i r B esh i r, Baalbec, D a mascus' and Pal m y ra . I n a ddi t i on to these picturesque details., the personal adventures of the author were numerous and interestin. itAFF HALL.—Ours must indeed be the age of novel-writing, for it appears that even our poets cannot escape the contagion. The title which Mr. &divan has chosen for his coup d'essai in his (to Nina) new department of literature, is of a very expressive nature. We have reason to believe that it has been his aim to lay aside the paraphernalia of the poet altogether, and take up the weapons of the wit and the satirist ; and to use them with an unsparing hand against the follies, the vices, and the various abuses and corruptions of the time, in all classes of society. In short, we have some idea that " Raff Hall" may turn out to be a new " Brace bridge Hall," applied to the immediate times and circum stances of our own day. THE BOOK.—When we noticed iu our literary department " The Diary of the Life and Times of George 1V.," we were scarcely prepared for the sensation it was des tined to create. The fact is that the perfect freedom with which the most important secrets are divulged, and the most delicate topics handled, have rendered ' The Book," as it is called, par excellence—an object..of tile most intense curiosity. The lady—for lady it is pronounced to be—who has done this deed proceeds to the dissection of hundreds of living subjects, male and female ; and every page seems, like tinder, to require nothing but breathing upon to make it burst into flame. --Joh n Bull. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND liumounisT FOIPJANUARY......EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ.—'Phis is certainly one of the most interesing numbers of this c l ever and attractive periodical which has fallen under our obsr rvation. The Magazine reader will be right well pleased t o l earn that Mr. Colbura has, despite of the depreda tions of the Pirates, recommenced the publication of Captain Marryatt's " Phantom Ship," which, as far as it has gone, is €l. , we superior to anything which has emanated from the same asithor• In sts le, in incident, its description, and the manage ment of the talp, it is a production which may very justly be regarded as the clef d' oeuvre of Capt , ie Marryist. We have n'at space to make. more than a passing allusion to some of the ()thee artieL•s des sing of commendation. The Editor's " Gurney Papers"—A capital sporting continuation of the " Great 'Western Jungle"—The Manager's Note Book— Piae Apple Lodge--Letters from Ireland—Chigwell Re visited, by the author of " Rejected Addresses"—And an EF•say cf Miss Landon, the " Female Po/trait Gallery," are amongst the many attractions of this very varied and clever rsiagazine.—Dablin Evening Post. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have transferred to our columns the Bill to make tem porary provision for the Government of Lower Canada. TI.o preamble sets forth the impossibility, in .the present state of that Province, to call together the House of Assembly ; that it is expedient the Province should be governed on Constitu tional principles ; that es, in order to the preparation of such measures as it may be desirable to propose to Parliamentfor improving the Constitution of the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, or either of them, and for regulating divers questions in which the said Provinces ere jointly inte rested, the Governor-General of her Majesty's Provinces in North America has been authorised to summon a meeting, consisting cf the Governer-General and of certain other persons representing the interests and opinions of her Majesty's sub jects inhabiting the said -Provinces. It is in the meantime necessary that temporary provision should be made for the Government of Lower Canada. The Acts constituting a Legislature for Lower Canada are suspended until the Ist day of November, 1840, and her Majsty is authorised to appoint, or to authorise the Governor of Lower Canada to appoint, such a number of Legislative Councillors as to her Majesty shall seem meet, and to provide for the removal, suspension, or re signation of such Legislative Councillors. The ordinances made by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the ma jority of the Legislative Councillors, are not to continue in force beyond the Ist day cf November, 1842. Ordinances shall first be proposed by the Governor for the adoption of the Legislative Councillors, and only when the Governor and at least five such Councillors are present. It is not lawful to alter by any ordinances the laws respecting the constitution or composition of the Legislative Assembly, or the right to vote, or the divisions for purposes of election, or to impcse any new taxes. The Governor is authorised, with the advice and consent of the Council, to appropriate all mo. neys which may be in the hands of the Receiver-General, and to appropriate a sufficient part of them to repay what may have been issued out of the 142,1601. 14s. 6d., granted by the Act of last session for advances on account of charges for the ad ministration of justice and the civil government of Lower Ca nada, provided that no appropriation for any one year exceed the appropriation of 1832. The provisions cf the Act of the 31 Geo. 111 , respecting the 'disallowance or approval of laws en acted by the Legislature, constituted by that Act, shall apply to ordinances under this Act.- The time fixed for the suspension of the constitution may be shortened by an order in coun cil. The Act, it will be seen, is of great simplicity, and it does not occur to us that it can give rise to much discussion. Out of evil often comes good. The re volt has forced on the consideration of Government the pro viding for matters in which the two provinces are jointly in terested, and it has at the same time impressed teen's minds with the necessity of seizing the present moment for an ar rangement, without which serious consequences might happen. Lord Glenelg alluded very pointedly to this very important subject in his speech on Thursday night. His Lordship stated that the difference between the habits of the people of the two provinces, and the great extent of them, presented obstacles of a formidable nature to the union of the provinces, and he seemed inclined to think a federal union preferable. " This," he said, " would have a very considerable effect in adjusting the disputes between the provinces, and it would give the' Upper Province a just influence over the questions in which it has an interest. •It would at the same time, by bringing to gether the natives of the two provinces to discuss measures of mutual interest, induce them to give their attention to subjects of greater importance ; it would enlarge and 'liberalise their views, and raise them above those narrow and local questions which have hitherto divided them." His Lordship added, " But in this I am not aware that the Upper Province acquiesces." We trust that the Upper Pro vince e ill acquiesce in some such plan as that alluded to by his Lordship. Something must at all events be done to pre vent the collision between the two provinces. There is, as our readers will not fail to perceive, abundance of work already carved out for Lord Durham. But, as the adage has it, " Where there is a will these is a way." We have no doubt that his Lordship will enter on his task with all the earnest. Hess and straightforwardness belonging to his character, and that his honesty of purpose and sincere disposition to promote the welfare of the provinces will not be lost on the leading Canadisus. This is one of those critical periods which, if properly taken advant , ge of, may secure for a long period a good understanding between our North American colonies and the Parent State._Morning Chronicle. We have received from the Secretary of the Delegates and Members of the Trades' Societies, forming the London Committee acting on behalf of the Glasgow cotton-spinners, a statement addressed to the Trades' Societies of London, and the working classes generally, with a request that we should publish it in the Chronicle., With this request we have complied, and it will be found in another column. We have no wish to fasten on the Trades' Societies of London, in the absence of all evidence, the charge of sanctioning acts of atrocity similar to those attributed to the Secret Committee of Glasgow cotton-spinners ; but we would adVise them care fully to avoid whatever may lead to the inference that they do not view these acts with proper abhorrence. The state ment appears to us to be by no means calculated to benefit the five cotton-spinners who have, after a very fair trial at Edin burgh, been sentenced to seven years tr , lnsportatien, while it must leave on the minds of all who read it the painful impression that its framers do not view with proper abhorrence the system of assassination and arson which, though not brought by legal evidence distinctly borne to the prisoners, was unquestionably organized in Glasgow. The books and papers of the committee at Glasgow, and parole evidence in abundance, sufficiently prove that money was con tributed by the workmen for various purposes, among which were arson and murder, to say nothing of injuries to the per son by means of vitriol ; that a secret committee had the dis posal of the money so contributed, and rewarded the perpe trators of such acts of atrocity according to a graduated scale ; and though there was not strict legal evidence that Maclean was the author of the murder charged in the indictment, or that the other individuals were accessories to the murder, not a shadow of doubt can remain that murder was among the means by which the secret committee sought to effect their object. The verdict of not proven is not equiva lent to not guilty, as the framers of this statement seem to suppose. The capital charges were found to be not proven ; but a verdict of not proven always implies that the jury have reason to doubt the innocence of the parties ac cused. In Scotland, as well as in this country, where doubts exist the accused are very properly allowed the benefit of them. The Court very properly refused to allow evidence to be received which did not bear directly on the charges in the indictment ; but the London Committee may be assu ed that the facts which have been ascertained will be made available to the public good. Those who are entrusted with the public safety would be grossly deficient in their duty were they not to protect society from a system which threatens it with destruction, and which reflects so much disgrace both on Scotland and Ireland, where it has taken but too firm a root. The matter will as suredly not be left where it is. We are sorry to add that we have the best reason for believing that the different Trades Unions in London have not contented themselves with sym pathizing ssith the men who have been convicted in Edin burgh, but have actually transmitted large sums of money to them since the trial.-11.fornina Chronicle. The debate in the House of Lords last Thursday on Cana dian affairs was confined to the subject of the papers laid be fore Parliament by her Majesty's Ministers, and to the address by which it was proposed to convey to Queen Victoria the sense of the Legislature with regard to the unfortunate trans actions which formed the burden of those documents, as like wise with regard to the provision which ought to be made for the necessary consequences of such transactions. The speech with which the discussion was opened by the Colonial Mini ster, though in some of its passsges able and interesting, considered as an essay upon the habitual state of Lower Canada, was, for the purposes of the speaker—namely, as a defence of the Ministerial policy in dealing with the discontents of that long-agitated Province—remarkably feeble and defective. Against the charges which have long been in every man's mouth, of vacillation, improvidence, igno rance of what ought to have been feared from the disaffected, and of what was actually brewing among their leaders—la mentable imbecility, mischi evous d e l a y, an d the needless out break of civil war, which might by a prudent mixture of firm ness and concession have been without difficulty averted— against all or any of these known charges, for every one of which Lord Glenelg ought to have been prepared: his Lord ship, to employ. militrry language, was unable to " show any front." At the close of his speech the Noble Secretary left a deep impression upon the minds of most of his hearers, that not a word could be said for him in reply to the mute but sig. nificant testimony of the numerous voids exhibited by the printed correspondence, in proof of the frequent absence of that vigour and activity in his department which the actual condition of the interests confided to him has so obviously called fcr. By one of those hearers, an unmerciful, and even foul advantage was taken of the vulnerable points in the case of Ministers, and, indeed, of some which were scarcely vulnerable. Lord Brougham, the Noble and learned " friend" of the Melbourne Cabinet generally, and particularly of Lord Glenelg, although the latter Noble Lord somewhat contemptuously declined the endearment, attacked the Colonial Office and its garbled papers in a spirit which indicated no consciousness of a good cause, and from which, certainly, a bad one derived but little succour. When we say that, as a piece of declamatory Litteraess, consistent, sus tained, paid elaborate from one end to the (eler, this appears to us to have been among the most perfect - of its kind that ever proceeded from Lord Brougham, we give the Noble Baron—" learned, by the courtesy of the Ilouse of Peers"— the highest praise, because it is the only praise that can con scientiously be awarded him. It was voluble, virulent, and sarcastic • as a political discourse it was false, unsound, ab surd, and unconstitutional ; and, to crown all, it was delivered with such measured and cold-blooded artifice of manner es must have convinced the most careless observer that the Noble and (by courtesy) " Learned " Lord was hula credulous of the truth of nine propositions out of every ten that he was himself affirming. The two grand war horse's of the " learned" Baron's speech were—lst, that the civil war of Lower Canada has been the fruit -of the repressive resolutions of last year, passed by both Lords and Commons in this country, but never carried into effect in the shape of an Act of Parliament. That the Act by which Ministers had pledged themselves to follow up the above resolutions was never brought forward as it ought to have been has, it is true, been pretty clearly traced to au alarm in Downing -street lest the Whig-Radical eke dons might have been alfected by it ; for be it rereembered, that her Majesty's Ministers have never failed to give a du tiful and obsequious support to the most ferocious fladicals in the kiegdora, no matter for what place they might he candidates, and no matter with what violence they might oppose any anti-revolutionary measure of the Whigs, pro vided only that on party questions of a nature to deter , mine who should be in office they would vote as the Se cretary of the Treasury might desire. The non-performance of the promise to bring forward this Bill, in furtherance of the Canada resolutions, may indeed have hinted the Papineau faction that Ministers were afraid to handle their own weapons, and therefore that treason might march on with impunity; but that the resolutions of April, 1837, should have produced a rebellion, which has notoriously been in preparation for five or six years at least, is a little too pre posterous. Let us ask Lord Brougham what it was that gave rise to the resolutions themselves ? Was it. the tranquil or loyal state.of Canada ? Vas not all civil government in Lower Canada at that moment and fOr some time previously in a state of positive dissolution, so far as depended on the House of Assembly at least, by the withholding of those sup plies from which alone the civil and judicial functionaries of the province could look for their subsistence? We are told that the House of Assembly had " a right" to do all this, just as much as the British House of Commons. But we answer with the Duke of Wellington, that the British House of Com mons, since the Constitution came to be settled, has exercised no such right as that of refusing a Civil List to the Crown, or stopping the salaries of the Judges. In Great Britain at the commencement of each reign the Crown gives up its hereditary revenues, and obtains a Civil List in return. But what has been the case with Lower Canada? There, in 1831, the King surrendered his hereditary revenues on, as Lord Ripon says, the most solemn asseverations of the Canadian democrats that there should be a satisfactory quid pro quo in the nature of a Civil List granted. The Duke of Wellington acted with more knowledge of those gentry, with more characteristic sagacity and caution than 'Lord Ripon, for his Grace protested against reposing any trust in such a faction, and urged the necessity of insetting a clause repeal ing the said transfer of the Crown estates, if the Assembly should not duly fulfil its engagement and secure a Civil List in lieu of them. This wise and statesmanlike counsel was rejected, and it is to that fatal blunder of Lord Ripon, and not to the purely defensive resolutions of 1837, that the rapid growth of factious insolence, republican sedition, and rebsltious treason, ought in common sense ta be attributed. 2. The ex- Chancellor's second paradox is, that we ought to throw to the winds not merely French Lower Canada, bet Upper Canada, inhabited by Britons, with Nova Scotia a n d New Brunswick. Lcrd Melbourne does not seem to be a man of weak nerves. Yet the gigantic folly of his Noble and Learned "Friend's." proposal appeared really to astound, though he could not, a e dare say, without affectation, have expressed much surprise at it from such a quarter. But, whatever may happen at ether times and in different circumstances, this as suredly is not the time, nor are these the circumstances, at or under which we can sit down to argue gravely the sacrifice of dominions, occupied by .more than a million of our own countrymen, who cling to us for protection. The Duke or Wellington, in quoting military authority for an admission that Ministers might not be censurable for their slowness in sendirg troops to Lower Canada, where, he it recollected, Sir John Colborne found them so much wanting that he gladly drew every man from the Upper Province to his own support, be sides hastily pressing for reinforcements from Nova Scotia-- the Duke, we say, fixed upon Ministers another charge, quite as serious and as stigma ising as the former—viz., that after placing at Sir J. Colborne's disposal the troops under command of Sir C. Campbell at atlifax, they did not, as they ought to have done, supply the vacancy thus created there by regiments direct from home or from the West Indies. Such is the whole amount of that panegyric" of which the Whig Ministerial Press is boasting., and which it is blazoning right and left as " the Duke of Wellington's approbation of the policy pursued by the Queen's Ministers."— Times. The speech of Lord Brougham on Thursday night was one of the most splendid orations that was ever delivered in the House of Lords. It was vigorous, sarcastic, and ener getic. It was one of those speeches which no one but the Noble Lord could have delivered. In it s i ncr i m i nat i on o f the Government for not having fortified their resolutions, by not sending additional military forces to Canada, it was all powerful ; even Lord Melbourne himself confessed that he did not know whether the Cabinet had taken a right or a wrong course upon the occasion. That they did adopt a wrong course—that they did pass resolutions abhorrent to the feelings of/Englishmen, and most unconstitutional also—there cannot exist the slightest doubt. The resolutions are re corded in the proceedings of the House of Commons ; and, although we are fully aware that the acts of the Tory Go vernment laid the foundation for the insurrection now in activity in Canada, we have, at the same time, no hesita tion in stating our belief, that the resolutions to which we refer were the immediate cause of the rebellion which we so much deplore. With regard to the policy recommended by Lord Brougham—the independence of both the Canadas, and their creation into an independent State—the question can be only one of time. Ultimately they must become independent; but neither Lord Brougham nor any one else can at the pre sent moment adduce sufficient evidence to prove that the Ca nadians are in a condition to manage their own affairs to their own advantage, or are fitted for the task of self-government. This at least is our view of the case, founded upon a delibee rate investigation of the question, and upon information de. rived from persons well acquainted with the condition of these colonies. With respect to the right of the inhabitants of Lower Canada to assert their independence, there can be only one question the extent of the grievances com plained of, and their power of redressing them. The first is not proved satisfactorily to justify rebellion. The second is to a great extent proved against them by their inca pability to effect it by force of arms. That the Government has been lax, or rather unsuspicious of rebellious designs on the part of any portion of the French population of Lower Canada. there cannot be any doubt. It has been fully proved, and readily admitted by all parties; but it ought to be recollected at the same time, that the Government, now that a crisis has occurred, has done all that could have been expected from it or from any other. The appointment of Lord Durham cannot fail to give satisfaction to almost all parties. Although his Lordship has disappointed the Radical party, by declaring against certain popular measures, of which they believed him to be the advocate, it is, nevertheless, certain that no other nobleman could have been selected who is so highly calculated, in every respect, to consult, on the one hand, the prerogatives of the Crown, atel on the other the rights and privileges of the people.—Mornin g Advertiser. Tne intention of hearing Mr. Roebuck at the bar of the House on the second reading of the Canada Bill may be considered a step of very doubtful propriety as regards its justice, its necessity, or policy. It may also be a matter of surprised with some to find Mr. Roebuck at large and - forth coming to act the pleader upon this occasion, considering that for language far less violent, followed by consequences far less important, persons have been placed in situations which called upon them to defend themselves, rather than the clients whom they had previou s ly b een stimulating to mischief. In all likelihood there would have been no rebellion in Canada had not a few noisy Radicals here, with Mr. Roebuck at their head, indulged in language of the most wanton and inflammatory description. Nor does it all mend the matter that Mr. Roebuck should hare been the acknow ledged and paid agent of the persons whom his intemper ance appears to have goaded into rebellion. If then it is fitting i that any body should be heard at the bar of the House, if the House hare any regard for its own h onour an d di gn i ty, that person should not b e Mr. Roebuck. But we go further, and doubt the propriety of any body being heard as an advo , cate for persons in an actual state of rebellion against the mother country. No ; let rebellion be first put down, and the return of the rebels to their allegianee, and then let the imperial Legislature hear every thing that can be said for the colonists, and be prepared to redress all real grievances, if they have any. But persons who put themselves out of the pale of the law, are not, while doing so, to ask for all the rights and immunities of those who have not. Such a course amounts almost to a premium on rebellion ; and in this case on a rebellion, which is admitted, scarcely without exception, to have been both wanton and uncalled for, and as such without a shadow of excuse. —Morning Herald, LAW IN TELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, .Lix. 19. DYKES V. BLAKE. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when wo Went to pr. 83, the Court deferred its judgments COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—JAx. 19. MOOG AND ANOTHER, ASSIGNEES OF BERNALL, V. BAKER. This was an action tried before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, at Bristol, in which a verdict, subject to a reference as to the amount of damages, was found for the plaintiff. It was am action for money had and received, and its object was to try the validity of a bill of sale executed by the insolvent to the defendant, as security for the payment of a sum of money lent to him, in order to enable him to keep an inn called the Cleve land Hotel. Mr. CROWDER showed cause against a rule obtained by Ser geant Bompas. After some argument the COURT proposed that a reference should be agreed upon ; to which Mr. Crowder consented, provided he should have time to consult his client, who was at the time in the country. CONSISTORY COURT, JAN 19. COLLETT V. COLLETT. ThiS was a suit for divorce, by reason of cruelty and adul tery, proiaotal by Mrs. Collett against Mr. Collett, her hus band. Several acts of adultery, acknowledged by the hus band, had been freely condoned by Mrs. Collett, but on a fur ther alleged commission of the same crime this suit of divorce was instituted. The details are unfit for publication. The ; Learned Judge gave his decision this day, by decreeing the d'o. vorce prayed for by Mrs. Collett. Notice of appeal was given by Mr. Collett's Proctor. CE INTELLIGENCE. MA RLB onOUGILSTREET, Jane .1) ()key was brought before Mr. I)YRR, on suspicion of baking stolen 25 silver forks, the property of Col. Loftus, of Berkeley-squz.re. The prisoner was remanded until Wed. nesday next. MAME S- OFFICE. Peter Men•it, the master of the Catharine and Eliza& sth, from Demerara, appeared before Mr. BRODERIP, to answer a charge of having caused the death of William Steven a, seaman, by flogging him with a rope on the high seas in o,uto her last. After evidence had been heard, Captain Merritt: was diselnuged. SIR A. NORCOTT.—At Maryborough, near:Glab mire, at an early hour on Friday morning, Major-General Sir Amos Notcott, K. C. H., was released from his earthly s.utfer ings after an illne sof some months. Few officers have reaped more deserved lauruls in his country's cause ; and the favour. of his Sovereign was more than usually marked on his being tie. pension from her M a j esty f or h i s dist i nguie he& lieved in the command of the southern distri c t, on the 31,st %;;t. by a spccifi , :d services.-:— Cork Constitution.